TESOL Research Guide: Find Books

This comprehensive 31-chapter handbook is an authoritative survey of second language acquisition (SLA).

Prologue: A Documentary History of Teaching the English Language Arts -- 1. Exploring and Teaching the English Language Arts -- 2. The Integrated Curriculum -- 3. Creating Instructional Units -- 4. Creating Classroom Community -- 5. Engagement with Literature -- 6. Literature and the Young Adult -- 7. Organizing to Teach Literature -- 8. Teaching Writing

In this collection, teachers of English as a second or foreign language describe how they implemented TBL with learners of various ages and in a range of contexts. They explore the interaction and language stimulated by tasks, and investigate the effect of variables such as task type, planning time and repetition

Task-based language teaching (TBLT) is an innovative approach to language teaching which emphasises the importance of engaging learners' natural abilities for acquiring language incidentally.

he rapidly evolving language-technology interface has propelled dramatic changes in, and increased opportunities for, second language teaching and learning. Its influence has been felt no less keenly in the approaches and methods of assessing learners' language and researching language teaching and learning.